In the “local gal makes good” department: 2003 UW CSE alum Siobhan Quinn is interviewed by Xconomy about the tech scene in NYC. After 7 years with Google in Mountain View, Siobhan became Foursquare’s first Product Manager last summer. Read the article here.… Read more →
Nature reclaims Sieg Hall
Mark Murray reports on invasion of English Ivy, hedera helix, which has penetrated the exterior of Sieg Hall and has emerged inside, via a heater in Sieg 127C. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust … Learn more about Beautiful Sieg Hall here.… Read more →
UW CSE team wins National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition
A UW CSE team consisting of Alexei Czeskis (team captain), Karl Koscher (team co-founder), Ian Finder, Mary Pimenova, Cullen Walsh, Baron Oldenburg, Conrad Meyer, and Mark Jordan – coached by Melody Kadenko – has won the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition!
The finals, held April 9 and 10 in San Antonio TX, featured 9 teams from across the nation – the winners of 9 regional competitions. A total of 109 teams participated in these regional competitions.
Congratulations!!!!!
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“UW cyber team plays defense on a national level”
From the Seattle Times:
“A team of eight University of Washington students will wage war this weekend against an expert force, defending their territory with stealth tactics and on-the-fly invention. But there are no physical weapons involved. There’s not even a physical battleground. For the fourth year in a row, the team will compete in the National Collegiate Cyber Defense Competition, in which teams from around the country attempt to shield a computer system from professional hackers aiming to cause… Read more →
Craig Chambers wins 2011 Dahl-Nygaard Prize
The Dahl-Nygaard Prize is awarded annually to recognize research contributions to object-oriented programming. Each year two prizes are awarded: to a senior researcher with outstanding career contributions, and to a younger researcher who has demonstrated great potential. The senior prize is recognized as one of the most prestigious awards in the area of Software Engineering.
The recipient of the 2011 senior Dahl-Nygaard Prize is Craig Chambers, for work done as a UW CSE faculty member from 1991-2007. (At that time,… Read more →
Congratulations to UW CSE NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Winners!
NSF Graduate Research Fellowships are the most prestigious awards available to students beginning their graduate studies in the sciences. Among the winners of 3-year 2011 NSF Graduate Research Fellowships, announced today, are current UW CSE graduate students Katelin Bailey, Waylon Brunette, Katie Kuksenok, Yun-En Liu, and David Rosenbaum; UW CSE undergraduate seniors Will Johnson and Joy Kim; and 2010 UW CSE undergraduate alumnae Justine Sherry (now a graduate student at UC Berkeley) and Heather Underwood (now… Read more →
Intel blogs Corensic’s Jinx
Corensic, a software quality tool company founded by UW CSE faculty Mark Oskin and Luis Ceze, this week announced the availability of Jinx 1.2 R2, a software quality tool for Linux and Windows. Jinx exposes hard-to-find concurrency bugs in software, a task that ordinarily requires numerous manual steps and a great deal of luck.
Intel is blogging about Corensic and Jinx! As James Reinders states in his Intel blog, “I was a little ‘slow’ in figuring out what all… Read more →
Oren Etzioni, Yoky Matsuoka honored as UW Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows
UW Interim President Phyllis Wise today announced 8 inaugural University of Washington Entrepreneurial Faculty Fellows. Included in this inaugural class are UW CSE’s Oren Etzioni and Yoky Matsuoka.
The Fellows are being honored as the University’s most entrepreneurial faculty researchers, having achieved success in translating their research into products and therapies or started groundbreaking programs for translation or collaboration with industry.
“‘The University of Washington is dedicated to maximizing our contribution to the Washington state economy, and the impact… Read more →
CSE’s Mark Bun wins Goldwater Scholarship
CSE’s Mark Bun, a junior who entered the UW through the early entrance program, has been awarded a 2011 Goldwater Scholarship. Goldwater Scholarships are the premier award for undergraduates majoring in engineering and the sciences.
Mark is the sixth CSE undergraduate to be honored with a Goldwater Scholarship. See past award winners here.
Congratulations to Mark!
Read the UW announcement here.… Read more →
“Seattle’s Tech Job Crunch”
Xconomy writes:
“Another month gone by in Seattle, another Silicon Valley company has moved in to establish a beachhead for recruiting tech workers. … But all of those companies often wind up chasing the same pool of experienced workers – a pool that Washington state isn’t adding to fast enough by cranking out computer science graduates of its own.
“It’s a situation that can’t be sustained if the region is to maintain its prominence in the tech world. …
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